Help us reach our end-of-year support goal!

Your support, financial or otherwise, is what keeps the 'Geek online.
Only
23 days
left to get bonus GeekGold!
- learn more.
"Best site ever. Seriously, it's also written on the rulebook. Page 43, first paragraph."
-
Matteo Kintarouji (Kintarouji)

Just played for the first time. The (English) rules say that the points for final scoring "are added." (The French rules say the same, I think, and I don't have the German to be sure what they say.)

I assumed this meant that these points are added up. However, it occurred to me that it could mean that they are added to players' current strength. This would give players a reason for keeping their strength up in the last rounds (when Heroism otherwise renders it pointless).

What do you think of the idea of adding players' final scores to their final strength? It seems odd that what players have built up during the game has no effect on scoring.

Paul, I think you've misunderstood Bernd's reply. Your final score is calculated by adding the number of armies, city/oasis points and 3 points per rotated card to your strength.

That's not how I read it. I said "I assumed this meant that these points are added up" and Bernd replied "yea - you are right." I don't read his reply as a comment on my suggestion of adding players' final strengths to these points...

Yes, I was too fast and overreaded something.Sure - the bonusscore at the end (strength for coins, Armies, occupied cities + oases, fame sets) will be added to the strength the player earned during the game through all of his cards!

Yes, I was too fast and overreaded something.Sure - the bonusscore at the end (strength for coins, Armies, occupied cities + oases, fame sets) will be added to the strength the player earned during the game through all of his cards!

Yes, I was too fast and overreaded something.Sure - the bonusscore at the end (strength for coins, Armies, occupied cities + oases, fame sets) will be added to the strength the player earned during the game through all of his cards!

GreetingsBernd

I made this mistake in my first game.

So, just confirming, the rules should read:

Final Score and WinnerIn order to determine your overall Strength, the following values are added to your current strength:

Hence the mystery is resolved as to why the cities and oases have strength values (and not victory points, or some other points term), if possessing them doesn't add to a player's strength during the game.

So the camouflage card is worth 4 strength during play, and zero points for final scoring. (Nobody took the card in our first game because minus 4 to the final score didn't seem worth it for the short term strength gain.)